Edward Goetz is a professor of urban and regional planning at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs and the director of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice and Public Housing Policy and Clearing the Way: Deconcentrating the Poor in Urban America.
In order to put social housing back on the agenda in American politics, we first have to understand how public housing was destroyed — especially by Bill Clinton’s Hope VI program.